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The Good Place Unlocked: Season 2 Episode 4, “Existential Crisis”
Michael suffers an existential crisis on The Good Place, and the Overthinking It crew is back to unlock this episode’s secrets.
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“Star Trek”: Discovery – Where No Mushroom Has Gone Before
Episode 5 of Discovery – is it Star Trek yet?
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The My Little Pony Movie Is Basically Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle
A woman/mare without friendship is a dangerous thing.
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Why Do People Like Scary Movies?
Is it about confronting death? An adrenaline high? Masochism? For that matter, why do people like David Foster Wallace?
Star Trek: Discovery – What’s in the Box?
A monster finds a friend on the Trek-iest Discovery yet.
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The Good Place Unlocked: Season 2 Episode 4
Overthinking It TV Recaps are back in a series we call The Good Place Unlocked. These articles will contain spoilers for all of Season 1 (which are really significant spoilers!) and through the episode of Season 2 under discussion. The most … Continued
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The Comedians Have Failed Us and We Are Adrift on a Moonless Sea
If we can’t get our news from Comedy Central, from whom can we get it?
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Star Trek: Discovery – “This is not a democracy!”
Starfleet has a dark side…and it tastes like Tang.
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The Good Place Unlocked: Season 2 Episode 3
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Star Trek: Discovery – It’s Time for Some Game Theory
Analyzing Star Trek Discovery’s opening Federation-Klingon standoff as a Prisoner’s Dilemma
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I want to go off of your point about Star Trek’s stories being hindered by the no conflict rule. I’ve also heard… more
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Great podcast. You guys did a fantastic job of discussing a difficult topic in the OTI way. I do have a meta-question… more
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I enjoyed this episode. Though I think you guys had a bit more fun than a topic like this would require… Lol.
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That’s the real “gag” of the episode. Apparently it’s on Michael who is “mortal”, and it is human’s BELIEF in… more
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You’re hitting some of the main points that irritate me most about this show so far and that I don’t really see… more
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There’s a palpable heartbreak throughout this essay that political comedy isn’t as socially influential as you… more
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Thanks for the Orville shoutout. Right now I am more Orvellian than Trekkie, as the Orvilleverse is the universe… more
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Yeah, Drive is a great example of using and subverting the expectations of its audience. And, I also saw this in… more
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That tension is a really good point and I think that horror, like most genres, has a lot of different pivot points… more
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I think what the article and many of the commenters are talking about, but never quite explicitly say is that horror… more
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